Emergency services attended three single-vehicle car crashes recently, two yesterday morning in Luggate and near Makarora, and another on the Cardrona Valley Rd on Tuesday night.
Two men from the United Kingdom were the occupants of a rental car which slid off an icy stretch of State Highway 6 north of Makarora about 11am yesterday, Constable Sean Hurley, of Wanaka, said.
The accident happened on a stretch of the road near Davis Flat, where several other ice-related crashes have occurred this winter.
Neither man was injured in the crash, Const Hurley said.
Four Tasmanian students escaped without injuries when their rental car crashed off State Highway 8 near Luggate after it hit black ice yesterday morning.
The four 21-year-old males were travelling to Christchurch after visiting Wanaka for a skiing holiday, he said.
Driving conditions at the time of the accident were poor, with fog and ice on wet roads contributing to the group's accident at the intersection of Shortcut Rd and SH8A near the Red Bridge, he said.
"They've hit ice and gone straight through the junction, launching themselves Dukes of Hazzard-style off the road and over a fence," he said.
"There are no major issues from our perspective.
They all seemed good as gold.
No injuries as well, which is the main thing," he said.
Wanaka sub-area commander Senior Sergeant Allan Grindell said motorists had been "incredibly lucky" after the spate of recent accidents.
Seven occupants involved in a van crash on Tuesday night were not injured.
The vehicle hit ice at the well-known accident spot called the Larches on Cardrona Valley Rd, he said.
The van rolled and crashed when it hit the icy stretch of road about 8pm, Snr Sgt Grindell said.
"It is unbelievable no-one was injured. We've been so lucky this winter, given the number of accidents which keep happening," Snr Sgt Grindell said.
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